Thrown for a loop.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Central Intelligence Agency's investigation of mobile biological weapons laboratories in Iraq - Brief Article

Curveball, you will recall, was the CIA's source for the fiction about Iraq's mobile biological weapons laboratories that the Bush admin peddled to justify the war. I doubt that in the entire history of espionage, a codename has ever inspired less confidence in the reliability of a source.

Now come Bob Drogin and John Goetz of the Los Angeles Times, with the news that, before the Bush gang trumpeted Curveball's phony story to the world, his German handlers had warned the CIA that they "could not verify the things he said," that he was not a "psychologically stable guy," and that his information was vague and mostly second-hand.

After we had...